(click on the image to read the whole comic)
It’s a lovely read
you can buy it here if you like
we reviewed it here and interviewed the creators here
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Lazy Sunday Read – Star Bright
Monthly Archives: February 2021
SHOP! Cafe Royal Books
foto friday – JJ Waller
go look – kingzleepy
kicking it – 24th Feb 2021
all the kickstarters that are catching my eye at the mo (and sometimes other things to back as well)
Some highly anticipated (by me anyway) project on Kickstarter this time!
Subscriptions
I just like the idea you can subscribe and receive poems and other creative work in the post!
New this week
Love Her Madly and Other Stories by Rob Wells (@RobertDWells)
(fully funded) finishes Thursday, March 11 2021 8:01 PM GMT
he’s very funny and quite dark, what more do you need
Weird Work #1 by @Jordan_J_Thomas (writer) and @shaky_kane (artist)
(fully funded) finishes Monday, March 22 2021 6:00 PM GMT
it’s Shaky Kane drawing!!
Planet Comics issue 2 by @JeffMcClelland and others
(still funding) finishes Monday, March 29 2021 5:00 AM BST
this just has some fun looking cartooning and seems to be a fun read fro mthe pages on show
I’m still loving these Kickstarter
Less than a week to go
The Scent of May Rain by @MarkOStack
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, February 24 2021 12:24 PM GMT
beautiful artwork and a fascinating sounding premise
Heavy Rotation by Shelly Bond (@sxbond)
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, February 24 2021 2:16 PM GMT
because these Shelley Bond projects have been awesome and this features some greart artists including personal favourite Mark Stafford @marxtafford
(fully funded) finishes Thursday, February 25 2021 1:00 PM GMT
there’s something in the character design that is just very satisfying
Threadbare Memories by @AngelaBComics
(fully funded) finishes Thursday, February 25 2021 5:55 PM GMT
amazingly skilled artwork, physically believable but enormously inventive as well; this looks like a lot of fun
Dr Love Wane and the Experiments issue 2 – @DrLoveWaveComic by @GSGustin and @kayleerowena and @JoametteGil and @KelseyAlex_
(fully funded) finishes Friday, February 26 2021 4:00 AM GMT
there’s a few story pages on the campaign and they look very intruiging, slightly odd, but not outright weird
Still got a while to go
Treading on Thorns by Aimee Sullivan (@stardustpinkart)
(still funding) finishes Monday, March 1 2021 12:28 PM GMT
I like the look of the bits of finished artwork and the very unambitious tone of the kickstarter, it just sounds like someone looking to be able to do something they love and needing helpto achieve that
Flintlock Book Five by Steve Tanner (@stevetanneruk) and others from Time Bomb Comics (@TimeBombComics)
(fully funded) finishes Mon, March 1 2021 10:00 PM GMT
there’s something about how much this feels like a birtish anthology , especially the artwork, that’s really intriguing and appealing
The Thing That Stops The Badness by Steve Thompson (@Kloob) and Daniel Bristow-Bailey (@bristowbailey)
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, March 3 2021 12:46 PM GMT
I’ve seen Daniel posting work from this on social media for what seems like a long time and it’s always looked good
His recent art has stepped up a notch to be something very cool and exciting
Floodland by Jonathan McBurnie (@king_of_nails) from Argle Bargle Books
(still funding) finishes Wednesday, March 3 2021 5:01 PM GMT
There’s something very odd and definitely personal about this andit’s al to the good as far as I’m concerned, an interesting one for sure
Gross! Press – Issue One by Gross Studio
(still funding) finishes Sunday, March 7 2021 11:09 AM GMT
it’s got a good line of creators that I’ve not seen before
Bridging the Balkans: Portland Meets Serbia by Miriam Kercher
(still funding) finishes Tuesday, March 9 2021 4:43 PM GMT
the idea of a zine about the artists and creators of Serbia sounds cool and the art samples look nice
The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town by Robyn Smith (@RoBroSmo) from Black Josei Press (@BlackJoseiPress)
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, March 17 2021 3:59 AM GMT
an interesting and very insightful look at being a black person in a mainly white area, treated with honesty and humour in the pages they show. it also has a clever and beautiful cover
Moving Through by Anna Magdalena
(still funding) finishes Thursday, April 1 2021 12:57 PM BST
great design showcasing some very beautiful images
Bird Brained Zine Anthology edited by @karrtunes
(still funding) finishes Friday, April 9 2021 9:54 PM BST
always want more zine collections in the world and the samples look cool
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go listen – Post Punk Mutant Musicians
(click on images to follow links)
(NOTE – I’ve had an EP featured on the show)
run by Jason Allen Walter (@oasissucks1)
all things noise – this one in particular is a favourite listen; gathering around a campfire and remembering our lost elders; a low key eulogy and moving for it
you can watch as well – (it’s NSFW, so here’s a small picture with a link to a preview)
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go look – Livor Mortis Zine
(click on images to follow links)
LMZ is such a bonus to the zine scene, always down for a collaboration (I collabed with him, but that’s out of print now) and always great by himself.
Busy capturing entropy, decay and the fine shadows and ghosts lingering in the world
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go look – Natalie Martin
lazy sunday read – then there was us
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a site dedicated to, in their own words, ‘Celebrating, supporting and showcasing the less heard, the less obvious.’ focussing on contemporary documentary voices, whether journalistic or photographic.
I admire their attention to people and social issues as much as their aethetics choices
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SHOP! Domino Books
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I like Austin English’s approach to curating his store, it’s eclectic and personal and carries a great breadth of interesting comics. It’s unfortunate that postage from the US is so expensive as it makes it very prohibitive to get anything over to the UK, but what can you do?
If you’re in the US – go for broke!
Check out this interview on The Comics Journal, a lovely long one, where he lays out his thoughts very clearly
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foto friday – Jake Eshelman
go look – Blaise Moritz
kicking it – 17th Feb 2021
all the kickstarters that are catching my eye at the mo (and sometimes other things to back as well)
Bit dry for me on Kickstarter this week, so here are some other things you can check out
Subscriptions
The Cartoon Museum (@Cartoonmuseumuk) – still aiming to raise funds as COVID keeps everything closed
See tweet below for the anthology they’ ve published to raise money
Virgin Giving charity page is here
Rob Clough (@RobCloughHighLo), specifically for his work on High Low Comics – you can also check out Solrad (@SOLRAD_mag), the group he contributes to and helps run
patreon here
Kristyna Baczynski (@kbaczynski) – a star of the UK comics scene
patreon here
New this week
Gross! Press – Issue One by Gross Studio
(still funding) finishes Sunday, March 7 2021 11:09 AM GMT
it’s got a good line of creators that I’ve not seen before
The Saddest Angriest Black Girl in Town by Robyn Smith (@RoBroSmo) from Black Josei Press (@BlackJoseiPress)
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, March 17 2021 3:59 AM GMT
an interesting and very insightful look at being a black person in a mainly white area, treated with honesty and humour in the pages they show. it also has a clever and beautiful cover
I’m still loving these Kickstarters
The Suttons – A collection of comic strips by Phil Elliott by @philselliott
(fully funded) finishes Sunday, February 21 2021 7:00 PM GMT
because Phil Elliott is a genuis and these strips are beautiful and gorgeuosly human
Pencils of Asia by Shaun McPhee
(fully funded) finishing Monday, February 22 2021 9:37 AM GMT
It’s a high end zine about pencils!!
Sentinel Comic issue 6 – Bad Kitty by Alan Holloway (@uk_comic) and Morgan Gleave (@MorganGleave)
(fully funded) finishes Monday, February 22 2021 5:00 PM GMT
Alan has proven to be a very adaptable and able writer and Morgan’s art is just damn good fun!
The Scent of May Rain by @MarkOStack
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, February 24 2021 12:24 PM GMT
beautiful artwork and a fascinating sounding premise
Heavy Rotation by Shelly Bond (@sxbond)
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, February 24 2021 2:16 PM GMT
because these Shelley Bond projects have been awesome and this features some greart artists including personal favourite Mark Stafford @marxtafford
(fully funded) finishes Thursday, February 25 2021 1:00 PM GMT
there’s something in the character design that is just very satisfying
Threadbare Memories by @AngelaBComics
(fully funded) finishes Thursday, February 25 2021 5:55 PM GMT
amazingly skilled artwork, physically believable but enormously inventive as well; this looks like a lot of fun
Dr Love Wane and the Experiments issue 2 – @DrLoveWaveComic by @GSGustin and @kayleerowena and @JoametteGil and @KelseyAlex_
(fully funded) finishes Friday, February 26 2021 4:00 AM GMT
there’s a few story pages on the campaign and they look very intruiging, slightly odd, but not outright weird
Treading on Thorns by Aimee Sullivan (@stardustpinkart)
(still funding) finishes Monday, March 1 2021 12:28 PM GMT
I like the look of the bits of finished artwork and the very unambitious tone of the kickstarter, it just sounds like someone looking to be able to do something they love and needing helpto achieve that
Flintlock Book Five by Steve Tanner (@stevetanneruk) and others from Time Bomb Comics (@TimeBombComics)
(fully funded) finishes Mon, March 1 2021 10:00 PM GMT
there’s something about how much this feels like a birtish anthology , especially the artwork, that’s really intriguing and appealing
The Thing That Stops The Badness by Steve Thompson (@Kloob) and Daniel Bristow-Bailey (@bristowbailey)
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, March 3 2021 12:46 PM GMT
I’ve seen Daniel posting work from this on social media for what seems like a long time and it’s always looked good
His recent art has stepped up a notch to be something very cool and exciting
Floodland by Jonathan McBurnie (@king_of_nails) from Argle Bargle Books
(still funding) finishes Wednesday, March 3 2021 5:01 PM GMT
There’s something very odd and definitely personal about this andit’s al to the good as far as I’m concerned, an interesting one for sure
Bridging the Balkans: Portland Meets Serbia by Miriam Kercher
(still funding) finishes Tuesday, March 9 2021 4:43 PM GMT
the idea of a zine about the artists and creators of Serbia sounds cool and the art samples look nice
Moving Through by Anna Magdalena
(still funding) finishes Thursday, April 1 2021 12:57 PM BST
great design showcasing some very beautiful images
Bird Brained Zine Anthology edited by @karrtunes
(still funding) finishes Friday, April 9 2021 9:54 PM BST
always want more zine collections in the world and the samples look cool
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zine library! Denver Zine Library
go look – Fraser Geesin
go look – Gareth Hopkins – a very personal recommendation
(click on images to follow links)
There are plans and plans and things that make them fail or change. I’d planned to make this a wider discussion about a new set of posts I’m planning looking to announce new books and interesting books that I’ve found. But then I started work on it and began with a look at Gareth’s work and it just focussed down to being about him and his oeuvre.
Gareth Hopkins is a significant part of why you’re seeing this post. Oh, firsty, Gareth does his own newsletter, it’s here.
He’s got a new silent, abstract comic out for sale called The Children of the Valley (that’s Plant y Cwm in welsh, which I love the sound of (I’m not a native welsh speaker sadly).
I’ll always recommend reading anything Gareth puts out, this one has very beautiful art to stare at, even if it has none of Gareth’s usual moving and cryptic poetry accompanying it.
I need to unpack that a bit. When I went on social media first, Gareth’s work was one of the first things I found and started following. He was working on Found Forest Floor at that time and there was something about that that took hold of me. Partly it was just the very oddness of a comic page paneled up over single images and how he managed to make a sense of motion in his still abstract images. Partly, it was that odd game you can play with abstract art where you recognise shapes as something else. At one point, there was a drawing that reminded me of the Yellow Submarine sailing through the seas.
Gareth put a free download of that up on his site and I downloaded it and coloured over it using MS Paint then made a tiny little zine of it and I think I sent a copy of it to Gareth as well. At that time, it was very much his art that drew me in, the idea that you coil make abstract comics and comic images that transformed other people’s work into new things.
I found instagram and an instagram feed where someone posted an image every time they ran and I started drawing abstract comics based on that.
Here’s the first page I drew.
That’s what got me back into making things, in fact, he’s what got me back into making things. Knowing someone was just making things ang printing them out and distributing them reminded me of the time I once made a zine (that no one ever bought or saw!) and I thought I’d try that myself. One of the first ones I made was Emergency and I sent that out to people who were interested and Colossive Press got in touch with me and asked me whether they could pick it up and publish it, which blew my mind and is exactly what they did – you can buy it here by the way. It’s a series of photographs and essays about being the father of a child with hidden disabilities. It was my gateway into zine making and publishing. Thanx to Tom and Jane Murphy for their interest.
I went on to start zine love and one of the first reviews I did was of a comic Gareth had drawn and written. It very nearly made me cry. I’ve linked to the review below.
Then I went mad and decided to publish an anthology and Gareth agreed to be part of it, which was so exciting for me and then his comic was absolutely amazing. You can also buy that from Colossive, here.
Basically put, Gareth’s work opened up my mind about what could be done in comics and what I could do myself.
thanx Gareth, you’re a diamond.
Want to know what to expect from Gareth’s comics? Here’s a review and here’s my write up for the paper underground awards.
Here’s a cover
And a couple internal pages
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Lazy Sunday Read – drifting deeper down by Lola Rodriguez
(click on the image to read the whole comic)
also check out their instagram
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SHOP! Pluto Press
foto friday – photo.andreas (Andreas Sundqvist)
go look – Adam Yeater
kicking it – 10th Feb 2021
all the kickstarters that are catching my eye at the mo (and sometimes other things to back as well)
Subscriptions
Make it Then Tell Everybody (@MakeThenTell) by Dan Berry (@thingsbydan)
patreon here – a recent is his interview with Lizzi Kaye of Cast Iron Books (@LizzieHKaye) (@castironbooks)
Sarah Horrocks (@mercurialblonde) – comics and critical writing
patreon here – one of the best of her generation as a critic and champion of interesting and expressionistic works and an amazing artist in her own right
New this week
Sentinel Comic issue 6 – Bad Kitty by Alan Holloway (@uk_comic) and Morgan Gleave (@MorganGleave)
(fully funded) finishes Monday, February 22 2021 5:00 PM GMT
Alan has proven to be a very adaptable and able writer and Morgan’s art is just damn good fun!
Flintlock Book Five by Steve Tanner (@stevetanneruk) and others from Time Bomb Comics (@TimeBombComics)
(fully funded) finishes Mon, March 1 2021 10:00 PM GMT
there’s something about how much this feels like a birtish anthology , especially the artwork, that’s really intriguing and appealing
Bridging the Balkans: Portland Meets Serbia by Miriam Kercher
(still funding) finishes Tuesday, March 9 2021 4:43 PM GMT
the idea of a zine about the artists and creators of Serbia sounds cool and the art samples look nice
Moving Through by Anna Magdalena
(still funding) finishes Thursday, April 1 2021 12:57 PM BST
great design showcasing some very beautiful images
Bird Brained Zine Anthology edited by @karrtunes
(still funding) finishes Friday, April 9 2021 9:54 PM BST
always want more zine collections in the world and the samples look cool
I’m still loving these Kickstarters
Bunny Jane: To Escape or Not Escape From Hell from @foolish_company by Felipe Bergson
(fully funded) finishes Thursday, February 11 2021 2:45 AM GMT
Just because it’s so intense
(fully funded) finishes
that’s just some lovely bouncy character design
The Suttons – A collection of comic strips by Phil Elliott by @philselliott
(fully funded) finishes Sunday, February 21 2021 7:00 PM GMT
because Phil Elliott is a genuis and these strips are beautiful and gorgeuosly human
Pencils of Asia by Shaun McPhee
(fully funded) finishing Monday, February 22 2021 9:37 AM GMT
It’s a high end zine about pencils!!
The Scent of May Rain by @MarkOStack
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, February 24 2021 12:24 PM GMT
beautiful artwork and a fascinating sounding premise
Heavy Rotation by Shelly Bond (@sxbond)
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, February 24 2021 2:16 PM GMT
because these Shelley Bond projects have been awesome and this features some greart artists including personal favourite Mark Stafford @marxtafford
(still funding) finishes Thursday, February 25 2021 1:00 PM GMT
there’s something in the character design that is just very satisfying
Threadbare Memories by @AngelaBComics
(fully funded) finishes Thursday, February 25 2021 5:55 PM GMT
amazingly skilled artwork, physically believable but enormously inventive as well; this looks like a lot of fun
Dr Love Wane and the Experiments issue 2 – @DrLoveWaveComic by @GSGustin and @kayleerowena and @JoametteGil and @KelseyAlex_
(fully funded) finishes Friday, February 26 2021 4:00 AM GMT
there’s a few story pages on the campaign and they look very intruiging, slightly odd, but not outright weird
Treading on Thorns by Aimee Sullivan (@stardustpinkart)
(still funding) finishes Monday, March 1 2021 12:28 PM GMT
I like the look of the bits of finished artwork and the very unambitious tone of the kickstarter, it just sounds like someone looking to be able to do something they love and needing helpto achieve that
The Thing That Stops The Badness by Steve Thompson (@Kloob) and Daniel Bristow-Bailey (@bristowbailey)
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, March 3 2021 12:46 PM GMT
I’ve seen Daniel posting work from this on social media for what seems like a long time and it’s always looked good
His recent art has stepped up a notch to be something very cool and exciting
Floodland by Jonathan McBurnie (@king_of_nails) from Argle Bargle Books
(still funding) finishes Wednesday, March 3 2021 5:01 PM GMT
There’s something very odd and definitely personal about this andit’s al to the good as far as I’m concerned, an interesting one for sure
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zine library! Sherwood Forest Zine Library
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go look – Julia Guzzio
A funny thing happened along the way
Here’s a thing that I often find happens to me on social media.
I followed a little rabbit hole on facebook and found some treasure at the end.
You know it gives you those friend suggestions every so often? Well, there was one with this visual that caught my eye (that there header right above) and I thought I’d take a looksee as I was bored. I realised straight away that the account wasn’t the artist, so I messaged them and asked who was.
They got back to me and now I have this cool little story I got to read and this amazing artist to follow and a lovely little interaction with a lovely human being (well, one who was lovely to me anyway) so YAY internets and social media!
Check ’em out
Julia Round (check out tweets on @hypnojoo) kindly messaged me a link to a copy of the comic story the image came from (it’s the introduction to her book Gothic for Girls about Misty and British Comics (if you scroll down, there’s a downloadable pdf excerpt that includes the strip I’m talking about).
The artist is Letty Wilson (check out tweets on @toadlett) and their art is so cool
see
So, you know what, just reach out sometimes and good things can be found!
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go look – Paul John Milne
Lazy Sunday Read – Tom Spooner (The Spoonster Spouts)
click on the text and images to follow the links
(NOTE – it mentions Colossive Press, they have published me)
A great little list of creators and publishers.
featured image by Ioan Morris
Just go down those rabbit holes!
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SHOP! – Tour Dogs
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featured image by Richard Sandler
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foto friday – Uhm! Zines
go look – takayamatatari
backers needed
all the kickstarters that are catching my eye at the mo (and sometimes other things to back as well)
Subscriptions
Douglas Noble (@douglasnoble) – Writer and artist, creating the poetic and everyday, sometimes in the same works.
Oliver East (@olivereast) – making crisp yet illusive images of life and the land
Kickstarters
Switchblade Stories issue 2 by @chrisaskham
(fully funded) finishes Thursday, February 4 2021 1:08 PM GMT
great, great art
khōréō: a new magazine of speculative fiction by @KhoreoMag
(fully funded) finishing Thursday, February 4 2021 4:30 PM GMT
Transition: The End of an UnPresidented Four Years by @FOtheStory
(fully funded) finishes Saturday, February 6 2021 3:54 PM GMT
powerful images of the end of a terrible era
narcomag by Osiris De los Santos
(still funding) finishes Saturday, February 6 2021 11:47 PM GMT
fantastic looking art in a great looking zine
it was snowing outside by jule wild
(still funding) finishes Sunday, February 7 2021 7:00 PM GMT
a fascinating look at one persons friends and the life they live hanging out
Bunny Jane: To Escape or Not Escape From Hell from @foolish_company by Felipe Bergson
(fully funded) finishes Thursday, February 11 2021 2:45 AM GMT
Just because it’s so intense
(fully funded) finishes
that’s just some lovely bouncy character design
The Suttons – A collection of comic strips by Phil Elliott by @philselliott
(fully funded) finishes Sunday, February 21 2021 7:00 PM GMT
because Phil Elliott is a genuis and these strips are beautiful and gorgeuosly human
Pencils of Asia by Shaun McPhee
(fully funded) finishing Monday, February 22 2021 9:37 AM GMT
It’s a high end zine about pencils!!
The Scent of May Rain by @MarkOStack
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, February 24 2021 12:24 PM GMT
beautiful artwork and a fascinating sounding premise
Heavy Rotation by Shelly Bond (@sxbond)
(fully funded) finishes Wednesday, February 24 2021 2:16 PM GMT
because these Shelley Bond projects have been awesome and this features some greart artists including personal favourite Mark Stafford @marxtafford
(still funding) finishes Thursday, February 25 2021 1:00 PM GMT
there’s something in the character design that is just very satisfying
Threadbare Memories by @AngelaBComics
(fully funded) finishes Thursday, February 25 2021 5:55 PM GMT
amazingly skilled artwork, physically believable but enormously inventive as well; this looks like a lot of fun
Dr Love Wane and the Experiments issue 2 – @DrLoveWaveComic by @GSGustin and @kayleerowena and @JoametteGil and @KelseyAlex_
(still funding) finishes Friday, February 26 2021 4:00 AM GMT
there’s a few story pages on the campaign and they look very intruiging, slightly odd, but not outright weird
Treading on Thorns by Aimee Sullivan (@stardustpinkart)
(still funding) finishes Monday, March 1 2021 12:28 PM GMT
I like the look of the bits of finished artwork and the very unambitious tone of the kickstarter, it just sounds like someone looking to be able to do something they love and needing helpto achieve that
The Thing That Stops The Badness by Steve Thompson (@Kloob) and Daniel Bristow-Bailey (@bristowbailey)
(still funding) finishes Wednesday, March 3 2021 12:46 PM GMT
I’ve seen Daniel posting work from this on social media for what seems like a long time and it’s always looked good
His recent art has stepped up a notch to be something very cool and exciting
Floodland by Jonathan McBurnie (@king_of_nails) from Argle Bargle Books
(still funding) finishes Wednesday, March 3 2021 5:01 PM GMT
There’s something very odd and definitely personal about this andit’s al to the good as far as I’m concerned, an interesting one for sure
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zine love 